Coconut Chicken Salad

I will be the first to admit that while I’m pretty good at cooking {um, duh…200+ recipes}, I am absolutely clueless when it comes to flowers and gardening! Thankfully my mom loves this stuff. She devotes so much time to landscaping four different properties each year. And when I bought my house, we made it five. Every spring she helps me pick out and plant bursts of color around my front yard…erm…what little yard there is. And, every year, I plant an herb garden.

I’m almost getting good at keeping these plants alive. It takes all I have. It’s a beautiful thing.

And I can’t wait to use the fresh cilantro, rosemary, dill, lemon thyme and basil in recipes over the next few months.

So. Excited.

But until then, let’s enjoy this salad. A salad that was inspired by last month’s trip to Naples. A salad that I made as soon as I got home. A salad that took me over a month to share with you guys. Sorry about that minor detail.

I ordered a salad very similar to this multiple times on that trip. It was the easiest choice…I’m obsessed with coconut, I love strawberries and salads are one of my favorite things to eat.

No brainer to recreate at home!

The one thing that I will tell you, and that I’ve told you before, is that I’m weird and am just not a huge fan of salad dressing. I may use a little, but 9 times out of 10, I don’t use any. The restaurant where I had this served it with a pina colada dressing, so you could try that! I, personally, thought that the juice and flavors from the fruit were plenty!

Gah! Just love this salad! And my new herb garden!

Life.Is.Good.

XO

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